More Than A Hospital

  Tal Golesworthy was born with a genetic condition called Marfan syndrome which affects the body’s connective tissue and can lead to cardiovascular, skeletal and visual problems.   For Tal, an engineer by trade, the condition took a particular toll on his heart, weakening the walls of the aorta and causing them to expand. Surgical intervention would involve total root replacement of the...

As part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week (Monday 20 to Sunday 26 May), we explore the power that arts can have on physical and mental health. In episode 8 of More than a Hospital, we go behind the scenes of Royal Brompton and Harefield's arts programme,  rb&hArts , as our head of communications, Luke Blair, visits Harefield Hospital to attend ‘singing for breathing’, an initiati...

What links Harefield Hospital so strongly to Australia and New Zealand? A question not many people may know the answer to, but Harefield wouldn't be one of the leading heart and lung centres it is today without its connection to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the First World War.  In this special episode for ANZAC Day 2024, we explore how Harefield Hospital be...

As part of Women’s History Month 2024, Episode 6 of 'More than a Hospital' features Professor Jane Somerville, paediatric cardiologist and Emeritus professor of cardiology at Imperial College London. During an impressive career that spanned over 40 years, Jane worked at both the National Heart Hospital and  the  Royal Brompton, helping to successfully establish the grown up congenital he...

As part of International Women's Day 2024, Episode 5 of 'More than a Hospital' features Dr. Nitha Naqvi (paediatric consultant in cardiology and director of the paediatric cardiac network at Royal Brompton), Dr. Carole Ridge (consultant radiologist at Royal Brompton and honorary senior clinical research fellow at Imperial College London) and Dr. Sonya Babu-Narayan (consultant cardiologist at Royal...

Fresh from a recent UK Government announcement that disposable e-cigarettes are to be banned from sale and supply, Professor Andrew Bush, consultant paediatric chest physician at the Royal Brompton hospital, gives his reaction to the news in Episode 4 of ‘More than a Hospital’.  Professor Bush, who has authored nearly 700 papers in peer reviewed journals, has long been involved in a campaign...

Like many patients at Harefield Hospital, Krishna Patel has become a well-known and popular face with staff and patients alike. Coinciding with Heart Month 2024, in the third episode of ‘More Than a Hospital’, podcast host and fellow transplant recipient Oli Lewington speaks with Krishna about his heart transplant journey, his time at Harefield, and how the hospital and its staff incite a sense of...

In the second episode of ‘More than a Hospital’, find out how consultant cardiac surgeon Jullien Gaer became involved with developing the cardiac surgical unit at a hospital based in Kabul, during the height of the Afghan war in 2005. Working with the French humanitarian association, La Chaîne de l’Espoir (The Chain of Hope), Jullien continues to this day to help train cardiologists in Afghanistan...

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In a remarkable first episode of the series, Oli Lewington, a double lung transplant recipient at Harefield Hospital, meets Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, the man responsible for setting up the transplantation centre that saved his life. Exactly 40 years to the day since Sir Magdi performed Europe's first ever heart and lung combined transplant, the legendary Harefield figure reveals how he prepared...